XBMC is the only reason I bought an XBOX and I spend far more time using the media functions than I do playing games so I don't care from being banned from XBOX live (which I never use anyways)
Ditto!
XBMC rocks. It chokes badly though on x.264 or other HD video because of the XBOX's wimpyish hardware. This might replace our current Mythdora setup (used only for HD movie playback) as XBMC is very 'wife friendly'.
Labels are doing well by the latest craze: online stores. iTunes is booming, eMusic is doing well, other online store sound like things are working out. It's a good thing.
A big downside to online sales is the glaring fact that many of the employees (and I mean "non-artists") in the industry becomes irrelevant. From CD factory employees to all levels of distribution from stockboy to the brick & mortar stores.
Which they will,
naturally, turn over to the artists...
FTA: "It is vital that all
retailers compete on a level playing field," said director general Kim
Bayley. "Illegal imports threaten that level playing field and threaten
British jobs."
Cry me a river, think of your jobs as being
"outsourced" to Hong Kong. Your brick & mortar record stores are going the
way of the haberdashery and cooper workshop. Be creative and come up with
a new business model or go extinct.
Being in business for X years
doesn't give you a mystical right to be in business for X+1.
What confuses me, is why scientist believe that having conditions the same (or very close to) those on Earth is necessary for life. For all we know, life could be able to live at thousands of degrees hot. You just don't know.
I'm still amazed at how much stuff was created in just 6000 years. Another 28 planets! The miracles never cease...
Yeah, absolutely. However Mom & Pop will still run down to BestBuy and buy a new "Norton IntraTubes MegaDefender 2008 Plus" for $69.99 instead of learning something new and refreshing. It's that kind of inertia that keeps a lot of the clowns in greasepaint and goofy wigs.
When will we see a REAL solution to these problems, and stop implementing obscure security work-arounds that eat more resources than the applications themselves? Anyone?
You would have to ask Microsoft that. These bandaids fix a lot of MS' screwups. Or you could switch operating systems and use Windows only when necessary (games, etc.)
It isn't any different; ala carte viewing would (unfortunately) kill off the lesser viewed videos/channels or make them more expensive. It's not "fair" but that's the way it would go. Makes me sick that they cancel Galactica but carry westling on Sci-Fi.
Maybe we're arguing the same thing, not sure. Need more coffee..
Or how about to the nearest DNS/news server on my Service Provider's network?
If you're that concerned about speed to your ISP's news server the you are surely a media pirate. Expect a visit from the *AA within 8-10 business days.
Did they verify your printout? If not, I just had a great idea...
I can see a Best Buy Boy running to his manager waving a printout "Sir, a customer wants the $9.99 'Man Stretching His Backside Wide Open' but I can't find them on the shelves!"
I think he's trying to hard to look oblivious. This quote: Darth Vader is out of the picture - without any mention of what happened to Luke's dad, mind you
sounds far too contrived.
Creationists have no valid scientific data to back up their crazy claims, they've never had a paper in a peer-reviewed science journal, they only have "life is so complex a god must have designed it!" Feel free to believe in whatever you want but Creationism is not science, if it were there'd be at least one publication or fact that the Creationists would announce to the world. They have nothing other than a misguided attack on the scientific method and facts. Creationists jumping up and down screaming about what they want to be true isn't science, it's religion.
I recognize your name from/., you're a smart guy. So rather than wasting your time attacking things you find uncomfortable why not find just one verifiable fact to support the Creationist myth. Or you could disprove facts accepted by the vast majority of the scientific community with contradictory data of your own. That is, after all, how science really works.
Microsoft patents attorney Jim Markwith told OSBC it would be
"impossible" for Redmond's bureaucrats to respond to the volume of responses
that would result from disclosure.
Do they really believe they'd have less work to do if they acted on their
threats to deal with it in the courtroom? MS is just trying to keep the FUD of
"using teh Linux may get you sued!!!11```" alive.
Slashdot Mirror
It's hard to cry "I'm innocent" when Chris Hansen tells you to 'have a seat right over there.'
yeah. I think catchalls are over-rated. I see so much spam that's aimed at random user names a catchall would be driving me nuts.
I just use aliases :) That way if the spam starts to flow I just comment out that alias and that address no longer works.
I use TDWaterhouse for trading (I'm in
From what I can tell the only sites where unique addresses seem to get out are from BitTorrent trackers. Not a complete surprise I guess.
Protip: if you run your own mail server generate a whack of aliases (ie: bogus000 through bogus999) so you always have a disposable address available.
XBMC is the only reason I bought an XBOX and I spend far more time using the media functions than I do playing games so I don't care from being banned from XBOX live (which I never use anyways)
Ditto!
XBMC rocks. It chokes badly though on x.264 or other HD video because of the XBOX's wimpyish hardware. This might replace our current Mythdora setup (used only for HD movie playback) as XBMC is very 'wife friendly'.
Labels are doing well by the latest craze: online stores. iTunes is booming, eMusic is doing well, other online store sound like things are working out. It's a good thing.
A big downside to online sales is the glaring fact that many of the employees (and I mean "non-artists") in the industry becomes irrelevant. From CD factory employees to all levels of distribution from stockboy to the brick & mortar stores.
Record companies win 41m damages
Which they will, naturally, turn over to the artists...
FTA: "It is vital that all retailers compete on a level playing field," said director general Kim Bayley. "Illegal imports threaten that level playing field and threaten British jobs."
Cry me a river, think of your jobs as being "outsourced" to Hong Kong. Your brick & mortar record stores are going the way of the haberdashery and cooper workshop. Be creative and come up with a new business model or go extinct.
Being in business for X years doesn't give you a mystical right to be in business for X+1.
Why are one man's delusions worthy of being put in a holy book and another's not?
Yeah, I'd love to be around for the first shipment of Unobtanium as well.
What confuses me, is why scientist believe that having conditions the same (or very close to) those on Earth is necessary for life. For all we know, life could be able to live at thousands of degrees hot. You just don't know.
I'm still amazed at how much stuff was created in just 6000 years. Another 28 planets! The miracles never cease...
It's still pretty lame though...
Yeah, absolutely. However Mom & Pop will still run down to BestBuy and buy a new "Norton IntraTubes MegaDefender 2008 Plus" for $69.99 instead of learning something new and refreshing. It's that kind of inertia that keeps a lot of the clowns in greasepaint and goofy wigs.
When will we see a REAL solution to these problems, and stop implementing obscure security work-arounds that eat more resources than the applications themselves? Anyone?
You would have to ask Microsoft that. These bandaids fix a lot of MS' screwups. Or you could switch operating systems and use Windows only when necessary (games, etc.)
It isn't any different; ala carte viewing would (unfortunately) kill off the lesser viewed videos/channels or make them more expensive. It's not "fair" but that's the way it would go. Makes me sick that they cancel Galactica but carry westling on Sci-Fi.
Maybe we're arguing the same thing, not sure. Need more coffee..
All I was trying to say is have an open mind because there are at least two sides to a story.
The fact side and the fairy tale side?
Two, it was not a first hand account of creation. How it was conveyed to Moses is not said, personally I suspect a vision of some sort.
Like when Bush says "God speaks to me"? You really believe that?
Tyreth took his toys and left, your logic was probably causing some long-dormant neurons to fire up. Rational thinking is the enemy of Religion.
So THAT's why Youtube folded. Nobody can survive in a system where we lowly consumers actually choose what we want to see.
YouTube is more analogous to a cableco rather than a channel. Their shitty viewed-12-times videos are subsidized by the zillion+ viewed videos.
And HD won't do that much because the bulk of the content was shot on film
Film has much higher resolution than any current HD signal. Perhaps you meant it was shot on video tape?
Or how about to the nearest DNS/news server on my Service Provider's network?
If you're that concerned about speed to your ISP's news server the you are surely a media pirate.
Expect a visit from the *AA within 8-10 business days.
Did they verify your printout? If not, I just had a great idea...
I can see a Best Buy Boy running to his manager waving a printout "Sir, a customer wants the $9.99 'Man Stretching His Backside Wide Open' but I can't find them on the shelves!"
well as C++ is a superset of C, I don't see what the problem would be...
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
I think he's trying to hard to look oblivious. This quote:
Darth Vader is out of the picture - without any mention of what happened to Luke's dad, mind you
sounds far too contrived.
I'd love it if women were hired here for our IT group. It'd be cool to have a female character in our lunchtime AD&D games.
I'm joking, we do have a female here. One of the best IT people I've ever worked with
(Damn, I replied and it vapourized. Here's the bulk from memory)
/., you're a smart guy. So rather than wasting your time attacking things you find uncomfortable why not find just one verifiable fact to support the Creationist myth. Or you could disprove facts accepted by the vast majority of the scientific community with contradictory data of your own. That is, after all, how science really works.
And we do have a certain responsibility to reject illogical, or unscientific theories, even if they are the best ones available.
Present your data which shows evolution to be illogical or unscientific. Also note that the misinformation about abiogeneis has been debunked.
Creationists have no valid scientific data to back up their crazy claims, they've never had a paper in a peer-reviewed science journal, they only have "life is so complex a god must have designed it!" Feel free to believe in whatever you want but Creationism is not science, if it were there'd be at least one publication or fact that the Creationists would announce to the world. They have nothing other than a misguided attack on the scientific method and facts. Creationists jumping up and down screaming about what they want to be true isn't science, it's religion.
I recognize your name from
Microsoft patents attorney Jim Markwith told OSBC it would be "impossible" for Redmond's bureaucrats to respond to the volume of responses that would result from disclosure.
Do they really believe they'd have less work to do if they acted on their threats to deal with it in the courtroom? MS is just trying to keep the FUD of "using teh Linux may get you sued!!!11```" alive.